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Game Notes: Chargers Return Home, Resume NE-10 Action Against Adelphi

New Haven vs. Adelphi
Saturday, Dec. 7 – 1:30 p.m.
West Haven, Conn. – Charger Gymnasium
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Complete Game Notes (PDF)
 
Opening Tip
The University of New Haven returns to the court for the first time in seven days and resumes Northeast-10 Southwest Division action with a Saturday afternoon visit from Adelphi.
 
Chargers' Last Time Out
A game-high 21 points from Jeffery Adkins guided the Chargers to a 67-62 victory at defending CACC Champion Bloomfield on Saturday, Nov. 30.
 
With the win, New Haven completed its three-game road swing with an unblemished 3-0 record.
 
Adkins shot 7-for-13 from the field and 7-for-9 from the free throw line en route to his game-best scoring output points. The senior filled out the statsheet with seven rebounds and six assists.
 
Ashanti DePass sank three three-pointers on his way to a personal season-high 13 points.
 
Down low, Cyrus James added seven points and 10 rebounds, and Eric Anderson posted seven points and six boards in 18 minutes of work.
 
Collectively, New Haven shot 22-for-61 (36.1 percent) from the field, 6-for-23 (26.1 percent) from three-point range and 17-for-26 (65.4 percent) from the line. The Chargers were outrebounded, 52-47, and each club committed just eight turnovers.
 
New Haven led by as many as 22 points in the first period and held off a second-half Bloomfield surge that saw the margin shrink to just one before the Chargers sealed the game at the free throw line.
 
New Haven Notes
Eric Anderson averages 15.7 points and ranks second in the Northeast-10 with 11.7 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game. The reigning Northeast-10 Defensive Player of the Year has posted four double-doubles this season while shooting 46.7 percent (35-for-75) from the floor.
 
Six games into his junior season, Anderson has already climbed into fourth all-time at New Haven with 137 rejections. His 71 blocks in 2012-13 were the second-most in a single-season in Charger history, tied with Bill Jeffress' 71 blocks and two shy of Herb Watkins' 73 rejections - both from the 1986-87 campaign.
 
Justin Exum has entered the top-20 in scoring all-time at New Haven. He current stands in 18th place with 1,292 career points, 335 tallies shy of the all-time top 10.
 
Also among the all-time Charger greats from beyond the arc, Exum slots at second all-time in three-pointers made with 244, and his .389 shooting percentage from distance is the sixth-best in program history. He is seven treys shy of the career record of 251 established by Mike Grove from 1989-93.
 
Exum averages a team-high 16.5 points per game this season while shooting 12-for-25 (.480) from three-point range in four contests.
 
Jeffery Adkins, Jr. is averaging 12.8 points per game to begin his final season with the Blue and Gold after a 21-point outing last Saturday at Bloomfield. Adkins, who posted 12.9 points per contest last winter, currently sits at 890 career tallies.
 
Adkins also ranks 11th all-time in assists at New Haven with 293, and his next helper will move him into the top-10. He slots 14th in career steals with 113.
 
Jemal Mosley has made an immediate impact on the Northeast-10 Conference in his freshman campaign. In three games against NE-10 competition, Mosley is averaged 10.3 points per contest on 10-for-16 shooting from the field in 20.3 minutes of action. The true freshman is a product of Don Bosco Prep (Ramsey, N.J.) with a post-graduate year at Putnam Science Academy (Putnam, Conn.).
 
The Chargers currently lead the Northeast-10 with 58.8 points per game allowed and a +6.5 rebounding margin. New Haven has also protected the basketball with a conference-low 10.7 turnovers per outing. UNH ranked 10th in the nation with 11.0 turnovers per game and placed 13th in Division II defensively with 61.1 points allowed per outing last winter.
 
Up Next
New Haven continues Northeast-10 Southwest play at home on Tuesday, Dec. 10 with a 7 p.m. visit from current divisional frontrunner Saint Rose.

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